Michelangeloesque

English Adjective en Michelangelesque. en w:Rodolfo Lanciani The Higher Life of Modern Rome The Outlook 57 1 New York, N.Y. 4 September 1897 27 https://archive.org/details/sim_new-outlook_1897-09-04_57_1/page/27/mode/1up 1 The group of Italy and Rome on the front of the pedestal, the lion of strength on the back, and the Michelangeloesque figure of the man freeing himself from the bonds of servitude, make up a striking whole. en Penelope J[ane] E[llis] Davies; Walter B[ell] Denny; Frima Fox Hofrichter; Joseph Jacobs; Ann M. Roberts; David L. Simon Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition 7th II Upper Saddle River, N.J. Pearson Prentice Hall 2007 808 https://archive.org/details/jansonshistoryof0002jans/page/808/mode/1up 1 0-13-193455-4 The bold elements of this composition include the tensely coiled serpent, the deep recession of both the boat and boatman, and the violent upward thrust of Thor, whose Michelangeloesque proportions seen from the low vantage point of the serpent itself endow him with a sense of Herculean strength. en w:Dan Cruickshank A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings Buffalo, N.Y. Firefly Books 2015 212 https://archive.org/details/historyofarchite0000crui/page/212/mode/1up 978-1-77085-599-1 This detail of a frieze in the New Sacristy is embellished with an idiosyncratic pattern that can be read as a series of grotesque human faces – a typical piece of Michelangeloesque wit and invention.